Gu Yan said, "If the Eastern Palace was going to have a concubine, it should have been there long ago. Your Highness wouldn't be childless at the age of twenty-three. He didn't have a concubine before, and he won't have one after the Crown Princess comes into the family."
Yun Xiangye asked in confusion, "Your Highness is still Your Highness after all. After His Majesty's reign, will Your Highness also have only one empress in the six palaces?"
Gu Yan said, "Why not? My uncle only has the Empress in his harem. She even injured herself while giving birth to Your Highness. With Your Highness as his only child, my uncle has never considered looking for another concubine to bear him a child."
Yun Xiangye said, "Your Majesty is infatuated, but Your Highness may not be. If he can really achieve the goal of having only one queen in the six harems in the future, why would he provoke my sister now?"
Gu Yan said, "Let's not talk about His Highness's affairs. The Emperor's will is not something you and I can guess. But Wei Yu will never become His Highness the Crown Prince's concubine. You can rest assured about this matter."
Yun Xiangye raised an eyebrow and looked at Gu Yan and asked, "Why are you so sure?"
Gu Yan said, "My grandmother once said that cousins are not allowed to marry each other, at least cousins within three generations cannot marry each other. Your Highness the Crown Prince and Wei Xi are cousins, so they will definitely not get married."
Yun Xiangye wondered, "Why can't cousins get married? Isn't being cousins a happy event, a marriage between close relatives?"
Gu Yan said, "My grandmother said that if cousins marry, the children born will be prone to idiocy and have a short lifespan. After all, when my grandmother was alive, she didn't allow cousins within three generations to marry."
Yun Xiangye asked, "Is this also why you disagreed with the marriage proposal from Princess Nan'an and Wei Xi? Then why didn't you accept the marriage proposal from Lin Bolan and the daughter of the Marquis of Zhenbei?"
Gu Yan said, "I never thought about getting married back then. I was only eighteen years old at the time, and I didn't think about getting married so early. Besides, I didn't know them well, so how could I agree to marry them and spend my life with them?"
Yun Xiangye said, "But didn't you marry me when you were eighteen? You didn't know me well at that time. Do you regret it now? If you had agreed to your junior sister's proposal to the Xu family's daughter, you wouldn't have married a girl like me, from a lowly family."
Gu Yan saw Yun Xiangye's red eyes from crying, and then he looked down and saw Yun Xiangye's hand eager to raise.
Gu Yan held Yun Xiangye's hand and said with a helpless smile, "Are you still addicted to it? Aren't you afraid of hurting your hand?"
Yun Xiangye said, "You just regret it, right?"
Gu Yan said, "No, although I was seriously ill when we got married, I wasn't completely unconscious. If I hadn't wanted to marry you, I wouldn't have agreed to marry you. I've never regretted marrying you. When I saw you in the lake on the first day, I thought you looked familiar. I was the first one to save you because I had been keeping my eyes on you."
Yun Xiangye said, "Lecher!"
Gu Yan smiled and said, "I felt you were very familiar the first time I saw you. Maybe we've met in our previous lives."
Yun Xiangye returned to Qingfeng Garden, but did not continue making clothes. Instead, she picked up Nuonuo, who had just come back from playing with Jingru. Perhaps because she had Jingru, a girl of the same age, to play with her, Nuonuo could already speak a lot of words.
Yun Xiangye applied ointment to Nuonuo's little face and said, "In two days, you will be two-year-old Nuonuo."
Gu Yan was teasing Nuonuo with a rattle and asked, "Do you want a brother or sister?"
Nuonuo hugged Yun Xiangye tightly and said, "No!"
Yun Xiangye chuckled and held Nuonuo in her arms, "Okay, we don't want brothers or sisters. It's enough for mother to have only Nuonuo as a child."
Nuonuo smiled faintly at Yun Xiangye.
Gu Yan touched Nuonuo's head and said, "Why don't you want brothers and sisters? Are you afraid that brothers and sisters will steal your things?"
Nuonuo looked at Gu Yan and said, "Candied haws."
Gu Yan smiled lightly and said, "Okay, then let your mother give birth to a brother or sister, and you can eat candied haws."
Xiao Nuonuo looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "Mother, brother and sister."
Yun Xiangye chuckled and rubbed Xiao Nuonuo's face, "Little greedy cat."
Yun Xiangye asked Nanny Cao to carry Nuonuo away. As soon as Nuonuo left the room, Gu Yan hugged Yun Xiangye in his arms and asked, "Are you so anxious to give Nuonuo a brother or sister?"
Yun Xiangye frowned and said, "Stop messing around, I'm going to have my period."
Gu Yan asked, "Then why did you let Nanny Cao take Nuonuo away?"
Yun Xiangye said, "You still say you care about Nuonuo? Is there any father like you? Using candied haws to tempt Nuonuo will only make her develop the habit of doing everything in exchange for candied haws."
"Why not?" Gu Yan asked, "Wouldn't it be good to let Nuonuo understand as soon as possible that everything has a price?"
Yun Xiangye just felt that Gu Yan's logic was perverse.
Gu Yan asked in a low voice: "Are you really having your period?"
Yun Xiangye asked, "Why would I lie to you?"
Gu Yan picked up the rattle left by Nuonuo and turned it gently.
Yun Xiangye looked at the rattle in Gu Yan's hand and said, "The dignified Prince Ning is actually a little thief."
Gu Yan chuckled and said, "Yes, I am a little thief who stole your heart."
Yun Xiangye frowned and said, "Whose heart have you stolen? I don't have you in my heart, only your daughter."
Gu Yan listened to Yun Xiangye's words, frowning and looking slightly annoyed.
Yun Xiangye found Gu Yan's expression funny. He didn't have her in his heart, so why should he be upset that she didn't have him in her heart?
"You stole this rattle from me."
Yun Xiangye snatched the rattle from Gu Yan's hand and said, "Gu Yan, you little thief."
Gu Yan said, "I've had this rattle since I was a kid. How could I have stolen it from you?"
Yun Xiangye showed Gu Yan the leaf pattern embroidered on her sleeves. "Look, this pattern is exactly the same as the one on your rattle. You stole my rattle."
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